Ron Paul to attack Rick Perry in new ad

Ron Paul is taking on Rick Perry in a new television ad blasting the Texas governor for for supporting Al Gore’s 1988 presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.

The 60-second spot, backed by a six-figure ad buy — the first negative ad attacking Perry to come directly out of a Republican campaign this primary season — contrasts Paul’s endorsement of Ronald Reagan in 1980 with Perry’s role as the Texas chairman for Gore’s first presidential campaign.

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“The establishment called him extreme and unelectable, they said he was the wrong man for the job. It’s why a young Texan named Ron Paul was one of only four congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president, believing in Reagan’s message of smaller government and lower taxes,” the ad says. “After Reagan, Senator Al Gore ran for president, pledging to raise taxes and increase spending, pushing his liberal values. And Al Gore found a cheerleader in Texas named Rick Perry. Rick Perry helped lead Al Gore’s campaign to undo the Reagan revolution, fighting to elect Al Gore President of the United States.”

The ad, which Paul’s campaign is also trying to place during Wednesday’s POLITICO/MSNBC presidential debate, comes as Paul has increasingly focused his fire on his fellow Texan. The two have never had much of a relationship, and Paul’s repeatedly tried to paint Perry as an establishment candidate no different from the rest, and dismissed him Friday as just a “candidate of the week.”

“There are a lot of candidates who climbed real fast and went down real fast,” Paul told The Associated Press.

Perry’s camp has so far resisted engaging with Paul, though that may prove trickier when the two share the stage for the first time during the campaign at Wednesday’s debate.

Unlike his previous volleys, in this ad Paul only goes after Perry, leaving Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama alone.

“Now America must decide who to trust,” the ad closes. Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader, or the one who stood with Reagan.”

All we see in Politico lately is story after story about one Republican attacking another one. Even the smallest slight by one Republican against another one is the catalyst for a headlinging story.

* Where is the story about the head of the Teamster's union yesterday saying that the Republicans need to be "taken out". When a union thug talks about taking someone out, it only means one thing to me.

* Where's the story about the vice-president talking about private sector workers being "the barbarians at the gate" who were only being kept away by the unions.

* Where's the story about the Democrat Representative saying that the taxpayers in the Tea Party should "go to He ll" and she'd be happy to send us there.

* Obama jumped into the middle of the controversy yesterday making it clear he supports the unions and the rest of us can just suck it up and continue to pay thorugh the nose to support them.

Anyone who gets their news only from the partisan, left-wing mainstream news media will end up with a VERY distored view of what's happening in the country.

OBAMA HAS HAD HIS CHANCE TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY. ROMNEY IS THE ONE CANDIDATE WHO IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS TO FINALLY GIVE AMERICA JOBS AND MORE JOBS DESPERATELY NEEDED. SEE FOR YOURSELF AND LOOK AT HIS SUCCESSFUL RECORD IN THE PRIVATE BUSINESS SECTOR. HE IS THE MAN THAT WILL TURN AROUND THIS FAILING ECONOMY. GIVE YOUR BRAIN A CHANCE AND SUPPORT THE MAN WHO CAN DO THE JOB AND GIVE US JOBS.

Haha, Paul doesn't have to try to paint Perry as an establishment candidate, that's exactly what he is.

If you want another 4 years of Bush, just elect Obama or Perry. They are the same thing.

Nothing changed with Obama. We still have our wars, we still have the bailouts, we still have the Patriot Act, we still have Guantanamo open, and we're still spending money like there is no tomorrow. Obama isn't some radical, he continued every one of the policies of Bush.

Big government, big spending, blowing money on wars. This country is going bankrupt pretty soon, and Perry, Obama, or Bachmann isn't going to stand in the way of that. You have one choice. Last chance USA and it still may not save the nation.

Al Gore of 1988 was one of those Southern conservadems who are pretty much extinct these days but stretching the truth a little in an ad is not uncommon. The ad works anyway.

Al Gore is also the one who invented the internet and global warming/climate change. In 2004 he, along with David Blood of England, set up the Carbon Credit Trading - get it "Blood and Gore"? His father was also a staunch opponent of the Civil Rights. Al was and is just another crazed career politician who knows nothing but how to con hard-working people out of their money.

You have a vision of an America no on else dares. And that certainly includes Regan. who GREW GOVERNMENT and RAISED TAXES. Not to mention all the other "stuff" that he "wasnt" involved in.

Has anyone noticed how different Ronald Reagan governed after his attempted assassination?

BTW, the biggest tax increase was IMPLEMENTED during Reagan's first term, but it was actually the very last bill Jimmy Carter signed into law - after he lost the election. (I am so glad that Al Gore invented the internet, because I had been blaming Reagan all these years for those radical changes in tax code. Thanks to Al, I was able to research it on Thomas' Library of Congress and see who cast the votes - which included Gore himself.)

All we see in Politico lately is story after story about one Republican attacking another one. Even the smallest slight by one Republican against another one is the catalyst for a headlinging story.

Get used to it, for it will be (and should be) happening for the next year -- until Republicans decide who their nominee will be. The same kind of stories would be run about Democrats if they had an open nomination this year, so we're not talking about any political bias on Politico's part. I know it must hurt you to learn of any Republican being criticized and doubly hurts you to learn it is a Republican attacking another Republican, but that's the nature of our political system. Brace yourself, for the Republican attacks are going to get much worse before the situation gets better.

Perry and Paul are two libertarians in Republican clothing. Paul was the true libertarian first; Perry only recently spread his libertarian wings in his ghostwritten Fed Up! and naturally Paul resents Perry for stealing his libertarian thunder and political hay.

It's interesting that you mention the stories about Teamsters President Hoffa saying that Republicans need to be "taken out", That Vice-President Biden talking about "barbarians at the gate" and Maxine Waters saying that the Tea Party should "go to Hell." I read about all three of these stories in the last week. On Politico, as a matter of fact ...

Maybe YOU are the one who should see what other media has to say, rather than blindly following news that gives you a "VERY distorted view of what's happening in the country." Not to call out a FoxFan or anything ...

lol...........Al Gore was never a conservative........................maybe his father Al Gore Senior, but not junior......

As usual you have no idea what you're talking about. Al Gore couldn't have been elected as a liberal back in the 70's and 80's in Tennessee, no matter what his lineage was. Now whether this was by design, through career opportunism, is open to debate but his voting record back then put him on the more conservative side of Democrats in the House.

I call bs - you weren't a Paul supporter to begin with if you would bail because he pointed out that he endorsed Regan years ago. Endorsing a candidate before they are in office means you agree with their campaign stance on issues.

Paul also said he liked Bush's non intervention / no nation building campaign stance - just because these guys didn't deliver on everything doesn't make it Paul's fault.

It's interesting that you mention the stories about Teamsters President Hoffa saying that Republicans need to be "taken out", That Vice-President Biden talking about "barbarians at the gate" and Maxine Waters saying that the Tea Party should "go to Hell." I read about all three of these stories in the last week. On Politico, as a matter of fact ...

Politico must be clairvoyant. Hoffa's and Biden's speeches were just yesterday afternoon - which is still THIS WEEK whether you count Sunday or Monday as the beginning of a week.